The Float Zone's Blog Posts

Floating is a great modern day lifestyle hack. Great for body and mind, helps with so many conditions and intentions, works well in tandem with other therapies.

The Float Blog highlights many of the reasons why people float especially to address medical conditions, chronic pain, or other physical conditions. This comes usually after other interventions and therapies have been used or did not provide long-term improvement or success.

February 10, 2021

Can Float Therapy Help Heart Health?

February 10, 2021/ David Berv

Float therapy boosts heart health in a number of ways. Here are just a few.

November 05, 2018

Floating and Acupressure for Time Changes - Daylight Savings and Jetlag

November 05, 2018/ David Berv

Using float therapy, floatation or floating, along with tapping on specific acupressure points, can relieve symptoms of jetlag, time zone changes, daylight savings, and disruptions in circadian rhythm.

March 28, 2018

Opioids, Chronic Pain and Floatation Therapy

March 28, 2018/ David Berv

Pain. It can be consuming, frustrating, debilitating, distracting, yet always subjective to the individual experiencing it. Chronic pain is of epidemic proportions and is a major cause of disability. Until recently, pain was treated like a fifth vital sign. Blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature, and…pain?

Floatation therapy is emerging as a valid, effective and adjunctive means for managing chronic pain.

March 19, 2018

Five Ways that Floatation Therapy helps Multiple Sclerosis

March 19, 2018/ David Berv

Floatation therapy helps Multiple Sclerosis. Here are 5 ways how floating helps MS.

March 02, 2018

Improve Sleep Quality by Floating?

March 02, 2018/ David Berv

All of us have experienced the consequences of a sleepless night. Everything the next day requires more effort. You lack energy and motivation. You feel groggy and irritable. Try floating. It might help you sleep.

Sleep has been of significant interest to the floatation therapy industry as evidenced by thousands of anecdotal instances of improved sleep after floating. While floating, like sleep, you are essentially "offline". with minimal to no external stimuli. Both floating and sleep require sensory disconnection as an essential requirement. Many floaters actually do fall asleep during part or all of their float. Most are somewhere in between sleeping and wakefulness.

January 25, 2018

Chronic low back pain improves with floatation therapy

January 25, 2018/ David Berv

Chronic back pain is of epidemic proportions. Medical professionals are seeking complementary ways to manage pain. Floatation therapy is showing promise and proof through case studies such as those being conducted at The Float Zone in Richmond, VA.